Who talks about what, separatists about money and state institutions: When they get hungry, they will realize that an independent RS is just a fantasy!

By: Rasim Belko

The RS entity is in an economic quagmire, which insiders in our country's diplomatic corps, as well as economic experts, qualify as the condition of a seriously ill patient. The media, which are largely controlled and/or financed by Milorad Dodik's regime, rarely or never write about borrowings that happen almost daily, because the RS entity no longer has the capacity and possibilities for long-term borrowing.

Therefore, in the media loyal to the “SNSD cause,” you will not have the opportunity to read about how it would be wise to restructure the institutions of the RS, and perhaps even “elevate” them to the level of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in order to alleviate the budget of the smaller entity.

On the contrary, in the RS, both politicians and the media are absolutely against transferring institutional responsibility to the state, regardless of the financial quagmire and probably the poorest region in Europe.

However, journalists under the regime's control do not miss the opportunity to point out the need to abolish some commission, institution, or agency at the level of Bosnia and Herzegovina. All this under the guise of financial burden on the state budget.

Glas srpske, a media outlet loyal to Milorad Dodik, today carries a commentary stating that it is necessary to abolish the BiH Commission for Concessions, because its members have been well-paid since 2005, and have done nothing.

And it is true that the Commission has done nothing, but the text of the aforementioned Banja Luka media outlet does not state the reason, i.e., the cause, why the BiH Commission for Concessions is ineffective, even when the Constitutional Court of BiH orders efficiency.

And they did not state the reasons because the cadres of their Milorad Dodik have been obstructing the proper filling of the BiH Commission for Concessions and its operation in accordance with the Law for years.

Because, the BiH Commission for Concessions is an obstacle to Dodik's plans to sell off Bosnia and Herzegovina's property with Serbia and other partners, to the detriment of Bosnia and Herzegovina. And that is the key reason why the aforementioned Commission is blocked and ineffective.

However, the public in the RS entity cannot realize this because Dodik has long since “covered” the media scene by spending budget funds on their loyalty. Looking through the prism of today's text in Glas srpske, those funds should be removed from the media control position and directed to the citizens, who, as Glas srpske writes, seek salvation in EU countries.

The claim that the BiH Commission for Concessions, as well as other state-level institutions, should be abolished for the sake of saving funds simply does not hold, because the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina has a separate budget from the entities. And the fact that the financial situation in the Federation of BiH is incomparably better than in the RS clearly indicates that the costs of state institutions do not have too much impact on citizens.

The fact that the media in the RS are not willing to write about corruption, nepotism, and the like, and that they pamper their thieves for the sake of the “Serbian cause,” is their problem, not the problem of financing state authorities. The day the RS budget ceases to be a well for criminal “businessmen,” it will be better for the citizens of that entity as well. And as long as Dodik and the media under his control offer them secession instead of a better life, the mark will look like a baking pan, and the baking pan will be as far away as the moon.

Therefore, it is clear that whenever media under Dodik's control express concern in their texts about the financing of state-level institutions, behind it lies an attempt to dismantle those institutions in favor of a greater Serbia, which would also include an “independent RS.”

When you get really hungry, maybe you'll understand!